Session ace
Lee Ritenour once more employs the cream of L.A.'s studio crop to come up with a drab, utterly unimaginative slab of nondescript pop. With guest vocalists like
Eric Tagg and
Bill Champlin (who also contribute as composers),
Ritenour and his cohorts -- among them
Jeff Porcaro,
Harvey Mason,
David Foster,
Alex Acuña, and
Richard Tee -- craft a pristine sonic foray into early-'80s production styles without a memorable song in ten. This is especially exasperating considering that
Ritenour had the audacity to cover Sly Stone's "(You Caught Me) Smilin'" and murder it. Simply lifeless and dreadful. ~ Thom Jurek